FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH: CHAPTER 20

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH: CHAPTER 20

EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Robert La Follette

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Progressive Wisconsin republican gov attacked machine politics/pressured state legislature to have each party hold a direct primary - Recalls, Referendum/gov. ownership of railroads, electric utilities, cheap credit, outlawed child labor, stronger laws

Question 2: W.

• B. Du Bois

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Harvard educated sociologist who call for a talented tenth and fought for African American rights.Helped to found Niagara Movement in 1905 to fight for and establish equal rights. This movement later led to the establishment of the NAACP

Question 3: Lochner v. New York

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supreme court case that debated if New York state violated the liberty of the 14th amendment allowed Lochner to regulate his business when he made a contract. ruled invalid, interfered the freedom of contract, went against the 8 hour work day for bakers

Question 4: New Nationalism

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Roosevelt's domestic platform during the 1912 election accepting the power of trusts. proposed more powerful gov. to regulate /restore the gov's trust-busting power. proposed a fed child labor law, labor rights, national minimum wage for women

Question 5: William Jennings Bryan

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Democratic candidate for president, young nebraskan congresman, free-silver advocate, in 1896 under the banner of "free silver coinage" which won him support of the Populist Party. defended farmers and attacked the gold standard

Question 6: Newlands Reclamation Act

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1902 act authorizing federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects, mainly in the dry Western states. sold public lands and expanded agriculture on arid lands - supported by roosevelt

Question 7: "waving the bloody shirt"

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campaign expression used by post-Civil War Republicans to remind north voters that the Confederates were Democrats. used to divert attention from candidates and from serious issues. It was also used to appeal to black voters in the South.

Question 8: Free Silver

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Political issue involving the unlimited coinage of silver, supported by farmers and William Jennings Bryan. - where the US mint would not charge a fee for minting silver coins - used to encourage borrowing and simulate industry

Question 9: Sherman Antitrust Act

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First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. banned any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce

Question 10: Muller v. Oregon

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Supreme Court upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health - Oregon established a law that limited women to ten hours of work in factories and laundries

Question 11: Omaha Platform

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Political agenda adopted by the populist party in Omaha, Nebraska convention. Called for unlimited coinage of silver, gov. regulation of railroads/industry, graduated income tax, and number of election reforms. stronger gov. to protect ordinary people

Question 12: Talented Tenth

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term used by W.

• B. Du Bois for the top 10 percent of educated African Americans, whom he called on to develop new

strategies to advocate for civil rights. - use their talents and position to eradicate segregation in American society

Question 13: Solid South

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Term applied to the one-party (Democrat) system of the South following the Civil War. For 100 years after the Civil War, the South voted Democrat in every presidential election. - the unwavering electoral support to the democrats in the south

Question 14: Mary

• Lease

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Eloquent Kansas, American writer, lecturer, in the Populist party, who urged farmers to "raise less corn and more hell" advocated for suffrage and temperance

Question 15: federal reserve act

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law that set up a system of fed banks, gave gov the power to control money supply. established 12 distinct reserve to be controlled by the banks in each district, could issue currency, set interest rates that district reserve banks charged their members

Question 16: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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radical union/Wobblies aimed to unite American working class into one union to promote labor's interests. organized unskilled/foreign laborers, advocated social rev, led several major strikes. believed that resisting workplace overthrow capitalism

Question 17: National Child Labor Committee

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reform organization that worked (unsuccessfully) to win a federal law banning child labor. The NCLC hired photographer Lewis Hine to record brutal conditions in mines and mills where thousands of children worked.

Question 18: Lodge Bill

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Fed. Elections Bill, whenever 100 citizens in any district appealed for intervention, a bipartisan fed board could investigate and seat the rightful winner. The defeat sought to defend African American voting rights and full participation in politics.

Question 19: Williams v. Mississippi

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1898 - The Mississippi supreme court ruled that poll taxes and literacy tests, which took away blacks' right to vote (a practice known as "disenfranchisement"), were legal.

Question 20: Clayton Antitrust Act

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act designed to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890; banned the practices of price discrimination and anti-competitive mergers, the new law also declared strikes, boycotts, and labor unions legal under federal law.

Question 21: Referendum

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state-level method of direct legislation that gives voters a chance to approve or disapprove proposed legislation or a proposed constitutional amendment. - voting directly on a proposed law, rather than leaving it in the hands of legislators